Professor Charles Kinbote

The story is subtle, witty, and hilarious, if one can refrain from annoyance and see through Kinbote's unreliable narration.

Pale Fire, a poem in heroic couplets, of nine hundred ninety-nine lines, divided into four cantos, was composed by John Francis Shade (born July 5, 1898, died July 21, 1959) during the last twenty days of his life, at his residence in New Wye, Appalachia, U.S.A.

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1960 to 1969 Post-Modern